A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Loemy Perry Gathright
Middle name of Perry is from Carolyn Gathright and Craig Gathright. First name was spelled Loemie by Gaylon Gathright.
Loemy was not listed in WFT Volume 5, Tree 1346.
Gaylon Gathright listed children Cary, Grayson, Gertrude, Hester, Mary, Etta, and Sam, and had a notation that he had 8 other children by a 2nd wife (there was no name for either wife, though). The marriage and children here are from Carolyn Gathright.
Newspaper article from the Muskogee (OK) Times of 9 Jun 1916, posted to Gathright mailing list on 27 Mar 2016 by Carolyn Gathright:
WAS TOO HANDSOME.
Sherman, Texas, June 9. -- Because she regarded her husband as too attractive to other women, Mrs. L. P. Gathright poured a quart or more of concentrated lye on his face and body while he slept early today, burning out both his eyes and badly burning and disfiguring his body. "I did not want to kill him, but I did want to put his eyes out and spoil his handsome face so he would not be attractive to other women, so I poured the lye on him," is the statement the sherriff said she made to him today. Gathright, who is 45, and who owned a restaurant here, it is said, will recover, but will be totally blind. He requested his wife not be arrested.
From his date of death, apparently the article was incorrect that he would recover. His age in the article also does not fit with the birth information I have. Here's a follow-up, from The Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, OK), 6 Nov 1916, p. 1 (obtained from Newspapers.com):
ACQUITTED OF CAUSING HER HUBBY'S DEATH
MRS. GATHRIGHT POURED LYE ON HUSBAND'S FACE BECAUSE OF JEALOUSY -- THE INJURIES CAUSE DEATH.
Sherman, Tex., Nov. 6.--Mrs. Minnie Gathright, who poured lye on her husband's face while he slept here last June, and from which injuries he later died, was acquitted on an instructed verdict in the district court here today.
Mrs. Gathright never employed counsel. At the time she committed the act, she said: "Jim was too handsome, and I didn't want other women to have him."
[Jim? Is that a mistake, or was he really called Jim?]
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